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I’m back… so what

Macgiver — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 02:32:18 +0000

I went dark sometime ago and there’s been a lot going on in the Apple world. Something tells me this has all been covered VERY well by the many mac pundits on the web. I think I’ll try to focus on tips, tricks and reviews. Maybe the occasional rant.

Out smarted by my own cleverness

Macgiver — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 01:34:06 +0000

I will readily admit that I am paranoid about my digital life. My Mac has enough personal information on it that a genetic clone with my login password could completely replace me in my everyday life. I’ve talked about this concern previously.

I’ve gotten pretty smart about encrypting the really serious stuff. My method of choice happens to be Knox. But I started thinking about the unlikely event that someone might get my password and open the encrypted file. So I took it to another level. I made my user account folder invisible. I thought I was pretty clever. Until I needed to migrate my data to my new Leopard install.

I started my upgraded to Leopard by doing migration install on a blank drive, but I changed my mind after the install was complete. I just went ahead and did a clean install on the same drive, which of course reformats the drive. So by this time I I had forgotten my super-genius plan to hide my user folder. After the install was complete I went to the drive containing the old system and guess what was missing from the user folder. That’s right… my user folder, which of course was invisible.

I thought that Leopard had some how magically deleted a user folder on a totally separate drive. finally, I decided that no way would Cupertino do that to me. I fired up my old system drive and voila, everything was intact. I eventually figured it all out and fixed the problem.

The moral to the story is that Apple loves me and would never hurt me.

Apple, OSX, Security, Tip, Trick, Leopard, ecto

Mission Statement 2.0

Macgiver — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:44:29 +0000

I was watching the Guy Kawasaki presentation from Gnomedex (you can find it on the Chris Perillo podcast at live.pirillo.com). He was railing against the misplaced focus on corporate mission statements. He highlights a hilarious website for generating mission statements which I never knew existed. It can be found at the Dilbert site.

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Posting problems on Wordpress

Macgiver — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 02:42:31 +0000

Well, I’m having quite a bit of difficulty posting from Ecto to this blog. I am in the process of reviewing alternative blog sites. I like Wordpress a lot, but it seems like I’ve had significant issues trying to make posts.

Images not showing up

Macgiver — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 01:17:50 +0000

I know that a bunch of images are broken. It’s a Wordpress problem and I have reported it several times. I’m sure they’re working on it, but I hope it gets fixed soon.

Gingerbread orgy

Macgiver — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 02:33:46 +0000

Ok, this isn’t mac related, but it’s too damn funny not to share. Check out these Kama Sutra gingerbread cookies.

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Running out of iDisk space?

Macgiver — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 13:51:09 +0000

I tried to perform my regular backup to my Apple iDisk account. Unfortunately, Backup 3 informed me that I didn’t have sufficient space. I tried to delete some files but I found no love. It turns out that you can’t just delete the backup files on the iDisk by dragging them to the trash. This actually a pretty nice feature to make sure you don’t screw yourself accidently. So it turns out that if you just check the menu under “Backup” you’ll find another item called “Remove iDisk Backups.” You are then presented with two options. YOu can remove all archives or just the ones created with older versions of Backup. Now my user data is safe and secure once again.